This the brave new world in college education that we all have to adapt to. I just read recently about a college professor whose surgery keeps him homebound. He teaches his courses in Second Life -- http://secondlife.com/ -- which his colleagues in his department can hardly imagine.
How do his students respond to this? Well, some of his students employ the following strategy to write an assigned paper:
- Flickr -- to get ideas for images to include in report (or store their own images there)
-Del-icio-us -- to store bookmarked research sites (from the library home page, no doubt)
- Wikipedia -- to clarify the definitions of key terms
- Consults relevant blogs
-Searches YouTube -- to find videos related to her topic
- Checks in with friends at Facebook -- to see if anyone has ideas about the project
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